Depicted vs Symbolized - What's the difference?
depicted | symbolized |
(depict)
To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means.
* 1984 , Lawrence Starr, "Toward a Reevaluation of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess," American Music , vol. 2, no. 2, p. 27,
* 1987 , Niall O'Loughlin, "Music Reviews: 20th-century guitar," The Musical Times , vol. 128, no. 1734, p. 443,
* 1994 , E. Pennisi, "Breathe (xenon) deeply to see lungs clearly," Science News , vol. 146, no. 5, p. 70 (caption),
(obsolete) Depicted.
(symbolize)
To be symbolic of; to represent.
* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
, title=Internal Combustion
, chapter=2 To use symbols; to represent ideas symbolically.
(obsolete) To resemble each other in qualities or properties; to correspond; to harmonize.
* Francis Bacon
* Howell
(obsolete) To hold the same faith; to agree.
* G. S. Faber
As verbs the difference between depicted and symbolized
is that depicted is past tense of depict while symbolized is past tense of symbolize.depicted
English
Verb
(head)depict
English
Verb
(en verb)- The well-known words depict a woman seeking sanctuary in a love relationship form a brutal, rapacious man.
- Here the music depicts the delicate pattern of ice on windows.
- False-color computer images depict lungs removed from a mouse.
Usage notes
* The subjects of the verb include words, music and images.Synonyms
* portray, supply, figure, express, exhibit, register, show, return, establish, shew, deliver, present, read, indicate, evidence, point, record, testify, fancy, picture, translate, visualize, usher, give, envision, turn in, designate, limn, show up, render, evince, provide, prove, image, yield, demonstrate, fork out, draw, visualise, generate, describe, interpret, project, submitAdjective
(-)- (Lydgate)
symbolized
English
Verb
(head)symbolize
English
Alternative forms
* symbolise (UK )Verb
(en-verb)citation, passage=The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.}}
- The pleasing of colour symbolizeth' with the pleasing of any single tone to the ear; but the pleasing of order doth ' symbolize with harmony.
- They both symbolize in this, that they love to look upon themselves through multiplying glasses.
- The believers in pretended miracles have always previously symbolized with the performers of them.